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- Buying Books Online, As Simple As Abc
By: Si Wei Kau | - Buying books online can be easy and convenient. In this technological age, purchasing the books you want has never been easier. Simply go to the website, find the book, pay for the usually discounted price, and then sit back and wait for it to arrive at your house at you own convenience. It is as simple as ABC.
When you are buying books online, you are not just purchasing books. You are allowing yourself the freedom to stay at home and still accomplish your goal. No traffic j ...
Tags: books, online shopping, bookstore, novels, fiction books, romance books
- Anthony Trollope's Autobiography
By: marciano guerrero | - This is wonderful book, to own, to treasure, to read and re-read for a lifetime!
Trollope's Autobiography is a perennial source of wisdom--besides being inspirational--to writers, but in particular to fiction writers. The book in general is an ABC of perfect, round sentences, and sentence variation, which of course makes for agile prose.
However, personally, I find three chapters that are unsurpassed in English letters: Chapter VII which contains his 'Scheme of Work;' C ...
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- Readers Beware: Lawyers In Books
By: Daniel Beasley | - The written word provides the opportunity to climb into someone elses thoughts and imagination to see the world from a different point of view. The novel can be purely fiction based and yet still hold attributes tying it to what we see and know in our world today. Of the many types of fiction, those centered on crime or fictional lawyers tend to lead the pack. Whether for the drama they reveal or the chance to try on the role of a lawyer by the reader, something about them is appealing t ...
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- Novel Entertainment For Real Estate Agents
By: Rob Thomson | - If youre looking for inspiration involving realtors and properties, look no further than these novels.Entertaining, funny and even educational, these books will show you the other side of real estate in all its humorous, gritty glory.
Red Hot Property by Devin O'Branagan
Devin O'Branagan's new book "Red Hot Property" follows four real estate agents as they begin their careers. Sometimes it's a bumpy road, filled with dangers and pitfalls. Theyre not alwa ...
Tags: real estate novels, entertainment, real estate reading, literature
- The Time For Gay Protagonists In Mainstream Mysteries Has Come
By: Bob Frey | - Tamara Kaye Sellman of the Writer's Rainbow Literary Services asserts on the cover of my gay detective novel, The DVD Murders, The time for gay protagonists in all sorts of commercial fiction has come. Has it? Is the straight world really ready for an invasion of gay heroes into all genres of mainstream fiction, such as fantasy, romance and mystery? Will the girl next door become the boy next door, Plain Jane, Plain Jim, or the clueless husband, the clueless domestic partner?
Tags: mystery novels, commercial fiction, gay detectives, gay righ
- The Appeal Of Graphic Novels
By: Vince P.Platania,Jr | - Whether you consider trade paperbacks and graphic novels the same thing or not, the point is that format is becoming increasingly popular in modern times. And by that format I mean more pages than a typical comic book bound with a spine as opposed to stapled. More and more comic fans are moving exclusively to the format of graphic novels, and graphic novels are more appealing to the non-comic fan as well.
For years and years the standard format for comic books was 22-32 pages st ...
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- The World Of Spy Fiction
By: upty | - To the masses spy fiction fulfills a fantasy that of the adventurous lifestyle of spies those thrillers portray. In reality there is not much like that but fiction survives on thrillers and not reality. Hence the proliferation of spy novels and works of fiction has taken the world of literature by storm. The readership of detective novels is mind boggling with many faithful to one of their favorite author.
The popularity of intelligence thrillers grew ten fold after World War I ...
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- What The Best Romance Novels Are Made Of
By: Francis K Githinji | - Some of the best romance novels are those that tell a story of love in a very dramatic way. I'm sure you have your very own romance story that you think is the best. There are very many factors that readers consider when they are judging a novel to be the best. It is not always easy to name one novel that you found most exciting because there is so many that can be labeled like this. As a reader, the title of the best romance novels will have to stand out. Yes, writers need to be very keen about ...
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- The World Of Inspirational Romance Novels
By: Francis K Githinji | - Romance novels are books that tell stories of love in a dramatic and inspiring way. All people who love life appreciate romance novels. Try to imagine a world without them! All would not be the same. They are the very basis of what we get up to when it comes to managing relationships with affection. The novels are a representative of real people and sometimes inspire what we already have. Readers all around the world have enjoyed reading stories of love for so long. A good novel will definitely ...
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- Reading Help For The Beginners- Book Lovers Please Don't Read
By: Gaucho Texts | - I am sure many readers won't agree with me on this, even I do not!! Because these tips might help the beginners for book reading, but for the regular book lovers these book-reading tips might reduce the speed of reading and analyzing. Book lovers, please don't waste your time on this article, this is not for you! You have a better option, simply click on www.gauchotexts.com and get a book for yourself at the best prices!
I have seen my brother reading books, books and bo ...
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- Internet Authors Don't Need Cut-offs
By: Mike Scantlebury | - When our children were younger, and still at High School, we moved house. The new place was further away from the school, and they told us that there might be financial help available for us towards the cost of our kids' new bus fares, which would, of course, be more expensive. We were sent a letter. It said that money was paid to people who lived '8 miles away and further'. We measured the journey in the car and it certainly seemed about that distance. Weeks later we got another letter. Our app ...
Tags: novels, books, writing, authors, publishing, success, cash, family, children
- Alternatives To Running For The Bus
By: Mike Scantlebury | - I live in a highly urbanised area. Sometimes, as I'm driving down the street, I see someone running for the bus. It always makes me laugh. There they are, hurrying, looking over their shoulder, desperately trying to attract the attention of the driver, waving their hands at them and begging them to stop, even though they are yards away from the official bus-stop. What chance have they got? If someone else is at the stop and flags down the bus, then there is a chance that it will take the person ...
Tags: self-help, organisation, novels, writing, authors, Internet Publishing
- Internet Authors Don't Need Club Class
By: Mike Scantlebury | - If you go into any supermarket in England and inspect the fruit, you may be pleased to see that some of the apples are bagged up and labelled 'Class 1'. However, looking around, you may be surprised to note that there aren't any corresponding bags marked 'Class 2'. It seems to be Class 1 or nothing! That's great, the individual apples are all free of blemishes; nicely rounded and approximately the same size; same colour; all good quality. You've got the best. Luckily, 'the best' is also reasonab ...
Tags: books, novels, publishing, Manchester, England, football, The Smiths, Salford Lads Club
- The Scepts Strategy For Novel Reading
By: Jane Saeman | - A novel is a story that moves through the events of the lives of the characters. To fully appreciate the novel however you need to not only read the words, but to understand what's happening within the story and why the characters act in a certain way.
The language, or words, of the novel will give you clues as to what time period that the story is set in, as well as enough details about the characters and where they live so that you can see the story unfold in your imagination ...
Tags: novels, reading, understand better
- Internet Authors Don't Need Advice
By: Mike Scantlebury | - Most writers in England waste a lot of their time posting off extracts of their exciting new manuscripts to publishers. Most of the time these would-be authors see their work come winging back, unwanted. That's annoying enough in itself, but in some cases there is an even more unwelcome addition advice. 'Try a larger publishing house' says the note. That's meant to be helpful? Which publisher do they have in mind? What makes them think the other guys would want something that people here have d ...
Tags: internet publishing, novels, authors, Princess Diana, books, good, bad, writing
Social Web Results  ![]() Graphic Novel Review: Invincible: Perfect Strangers by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, and Bill Crabtree Shared By: popgadabout - I’d been enjoying the series through the first couple graphic novels, though the stunner of when Omni-Man (Mark’s dad) flew in and laid waste to the...
 Psych Scamp: Psychiatry Blog Novels Shared By: woundedgenius - I’ve been trying to put together a collection of blog novels directly related to psychiatry. Unfortunately, my ability to use a search engine is...
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 Econsultancy announces Innovation Awards shortlist Shared By: lakey - So after reading through a whopping 400+ entries - the equivalent of about four novels of text - we have decided upon a shortlist for our Innovation...
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 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith | My Best Books Shared By: 93zombies - It's been the year's strangest trend – horror 'mash-ups' of classic novels. Stephanie Merritt enters a blood-spattered worldIt is a truth universally
 Persephone Books, rediscovered twentieth century novels, neglected women writers, twentieth century female authors, out... Shared By: laylock - We can send a book a month for six or twelve months - please specify which books you would like us to send. With the first book we will send out the...
 Regeneration Trilogy Shared By: db4dawn - The Regeneration Trilogy is a series of three novels by Pat Barker on the subject of the First World War Regeneration (1990)
- Internet Authors Live In The Present
By: Mike Scantlebury | - Internet Authors are living in the present? They have to. In fact, any author needs to think about what's happening now, right now, this minute. Whether it's thinking about how to finish a chapter, or whether their character suddenly became unbelievable, or how the dialogue sounds. When they're hunched over their new creation, they need to be there, really be there, in the here and now.
Traditional Publishers, on the other hand, are lurking somewhere in the 1950s, most of them. So ...
Tags: writing, publishing, internet publishing, authors, novels, books, stories, success, wealth, funds, money
- Internet Authors Don't Need Patrons
By: Mike Scantlebury | - One of the biggest lies that Traditional Publishers peddle to would-be authors is that things 'have always been this way'. That's historically inaccurate. What we call 'publishing' is a recent invention. It didn't exist before the development of what we now call the novel, long fiction pieces that involve either an omniscient author or a psychologically aware narrator. That happened around the middle of the 1700s, and when the form became very popular with readers, some businessmen saw the possi ...
Tags: literature, books, novels, writing, authors, publishers, self publishing, making money, getting published
- Internet Authors Aren't Dummies
By: Mike Scantlebury | - There are plenty of people out there who've written a book. Maybe you're one of them. Maybe you've thought of trying to get it published, (not on the internet, but with a real, live, bricks-and-mortar publisher). OK. First step? You need advice. You trot along to your local bookshop and start looking along the shelves until you find titles like 'Getting Published for Dummies' and 'Seeing Your Book in Print for Complete Fools'. Trouble is, there is no way on earth that anybody can write a formula ...
Tags: novels, writers, authors, internet, self-publishing, publishers, putdowns
- Alternatives To The Switch
By: Mike Scantlebury | - How much do people really want to be rich? If you check in to the Web regularly you might be forgiven for thinking the answer to that question would be 'everybody'. The internet is so full of 'opportunities' and Get-Rich-Quick schemes, that there must be a million gazillion people out there desperate for big finance. Oh really? Okay, let me make it easy for you.
Let's imagine that I know how to do it. I can tell you right here, right now how to fatten your wallet and put banknot ...
Tags: self improvement, novels, books, internet authors, songs, rich, advice
- Alternatives To The Downward Spiral
By: Mike Scantlebury | - A very great dramatist, perhaps Ibsen, said that 'all happy families are the same, but each unhappy family has its own tragedy'. Several people have disagreed, notably those like me who have worked on the street and out in the community for many years. The sad fact is that unhappiness is depressingly similar wherever you go, (especially in an urban society like England). It usually involves bad housing, low income, lack of educational ambitions, poor health, petty crime and use of drugs. Unfor ...
Tags: motivation, Self help, inspiration, writing, novels, author, books
- Writing Contests: 10 Tips For Creating A Winning Entry
By: Melanie Rockett | - There are literally hundreds of writing contests open for entry at any time of the year. There are contests for every genre and level of experience -- from amateur poetry writing contests to competitions for published novels.
Some of today's top novelists, magazine writers and screenplay writers got a kick start in their careers by entering and winning writing contests.
Here are 10 tips that will help you position your entry to become the next WINNING entry!
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Tags: writing, writers, contests, winning, novels, screenplays, poetry, contest database, prizes
- Internet Authors Aren't Losers
By: Mike Scantlebury | - Ask the majority of so-called 'gurus' to talk about business or self-improvement, and here's a funny thing. They start talking about sport. That's odd. Sport isn't the same as life. It's completely different. As Brian Tracey says, in sport you get three chances to hit the baseball and then you're out, but in life you can go up to the mound as many times as you've got the energy and the inclination, try hitting the ball, miss and still keep coming back for more. Or, to be precise, keep on swingin ...
Tags: novels, books, authors, publishing, web, internet
- Internet Authors Aren't Carnivores
By: Mike Scantlebury | - When vegetarians want to be insulting, they call anyone who disagrees with them a 'carnivore'. That's inaccurate. No human being is a carnivore. People are omnivores. Generally speaking, -if you look around the world - you see that people eat both meat and vegetables, also fruit, nuts, and in most cultures, dairy products. If you want to find a carnivore, you'll have to look at wild dogs and big cats, like lions and tigers. Small predators, like foxes, have been seen to eat roots and plants whe ...
Tags: novels, books, internet authors, publishers, publishing is dead
- The 7 Levels Of Publishing, Part Three
By: Mike Scantlebury | - Previously in 'The 7 levels of publishing'
The First Level of Publishing is to receive a single copy of a book. The Second Level of Publishing is when you receive five copies. The Third Level of Publishing is when you want 50 copies. The Fourth Level of publishing is when you aim for sales of 500 copies. Level Five is where a single book's sales amount to five thousand copies.
Traditional Publishers want Level Six, at least, that is, sales of fifty thousand. Even t ...
Tags: writing, novels, books, publishing, authors, internet, web publishing
- Internet Authors Are The New Slush Pile
By: Mike Scantlebury | - Traditional Publishers are strange people. They have a habit of wanting everything - even if it's completely contradictory. For instance, I've just read an article where an established publisher was complaining that the standard of books published on the internet was 'very low'. He said that he'd checked out various author's web sites and was moved to 'get his editing pen out'. He wanted to correct all the grammatical errors, tighten up the plotting and improve the characters. He also said: 'All ...
Tags: writing, publishing, print on demand, authors, writers, novels, books
- The 7 Levels Of Publishing, Part Two
By: Mike Scantlebury | - Previously in Part One.
The First Level of Publishing is to print one copy. The Second Level of Publishing is when you receive five copies. The Third Level of Publishing is when you want 50 copies.
Now - Part Two.
The Fourth Level of publishing is next. For the Self-Publisher or Internet Publisher, this is when they aim for sales of 500 copies. This means they have exhausted friends and family, all of them, including long-lost aunts, uncles, and peop ...
Tags: writing, publishing, authors, writers, novels, books, getting published
- Collaborative Writing: When Two Brains Are Better Than One
By: Heather Hepler | - I was so happy a few weeks ago when a boy in the third row of a freshman English class raised his hand and asked us, Where do you come up with your characters? They are soum random.
I think that's partly what attracts both Brad and me to writing. In what other vocation or avocation is it okay to know a whole lot about bottle cap collecting, and anachronistic role-playing, and Bob's Big Boy? Not to mention Brad's extensive knowledge of all things related to 50's television a ...
Tags: young adult novel, how to write a novel, novels, collaborative writing
- Don't Give Up On Writing That Novel
By: Jill Smolinski | - Think it's hard to get a novel published? For most writers, it is - but it's certainly not impossible. I've had two hit the shelves-in 10 countries, and with book club and movie rights picked up. People often ask me how I did it, and the truth is simple. All it takes is, 1) talent, and 2) actually writing the thing.
As much as I hate to admit it, the second is the more important factor.
Fact is, plenty of great novels go unfinished. The statistics are staggering: of ...
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- Why Internet Authors Don't Need Critics
By: Mike Scantlebury | - I love to help people, and I'm always ready to give advice to people who ask.
For instance, there's a lot of people out there seeking advice because they've written a book. A lot of people. Almost as many as the number of people who give advice to people - who've written books. Most of that advice is meant to be helpful, but is, quite frankly, wrong.
For instance, I saw an article the other day which said that it 'was OK to publish on the internet', (which is patron ...
Tags: publishing, novels, crime fiction, authors, writing
- Book Review: Anne Rice: Christ The Lord Out Of Egypt
By: Kathy Steinemann | - This review is based on the paperback edition of Anne Rice's novel, 'Christ the Lord Out of Egypt'.
I must admit that as a past reader of Anne Rice vampire novels, I was prepared for a different experience than what I encountered by reading this book. My son gave me my first Anne Rice novel at Christmas a few years ago, and he followed up with more of her paperbacks on subsequent birthdays, Mothers' Days, and Christmases.
Many of Anne Rice's previous novels are dark ...
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- Pahl Overcomes Heartbreaking Winter To Capture Bronte Prize
By: Michelle Mason | - After a three-month span that included the sudden and early deaths of both the canine companion he called daughter and his beloved father, indie lit penmaster Nelson Pahl deserved a break.
He finally got oneeven if it pales in comparison to his heartbreaking winter.
Pahl's Bee Balms & Burgundy, published on independent imprint Caf Reverie Press, won romantic fiction's biggest award, the Bronte Prize. The accolade recognizes the best love story published in ...
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- What Grabs Your Reader?
By: Martha | - It is the dramatic question that grabs your reader and holds him or her. It creates a narrow path that forces the reader into suspense that won't let go. It moves the story forward. All bestseller-kind-of novels have it.
Have you noticed that untrained eyes want you to explain everything in that first line, first paragraph. But it is the Dramatic Question that creates the hook.
In my novel, the Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires, a mystery/thriller sprinkled with social ...
Tags: writers, novels, dramatic question
- The Key To Powerful Spellcasting
By: Laura Stamps | - Let's talk for a moment about one of my favorite subjects: spellcasting. You can design every spell you cast to work the first time. Impossible, right? No, not really. All you need to use is the key to effective spellcasting, which also happens to control manifestation.
This may sound difficult, but it isn't. The problem lies in the fact that most of what you read about spellcasting and manifestation seems complicated, since the simple truth is often hidden beneath a veil of mysti ...
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- Confessions Of An Erotic Romance Writer: Getting My Groove
By: Jade Lee | - Few people understand the importance of a ROUTINE when making a pittance...er, I meant a living...as a writer. Where do you work? How do you work? When do you work? These are all questions a selling writer fields with every interview.
Here is the usual answer: I work wherever I am, as diligently as possible, as often as possible. This is my job and I must treat it as such or I will end up eating Oreos while watching Gilmore Girls.
Here is the real answer: Whenever ...
Tags: romance, erotic romance, chinese-american, writing, writers, novels, fiction, romance novel
- Can Book Giveaways Hurt Sales?
By: Kathryn Lively | - As an author and publisher, I have attended a number of Internet chats in support of eBook and print book releases. Internet chats are largely informal, hosted either by the publisher or a third-party website (usually a site for book reviews), where authors and readers can interact, ask questions and have fun. Look around some of the popular book review websites, particularly those which focus on romance fiction, and you will find chats are scheduled almost daily. Some eBook publishers, for exam ...
Tags: book promotion, novels, books, ebooks
- How To Write A Strong Start For Your Novel
By: Kathleen Ernst | - I revised my Civil War novel Hearts of Stone many times before selling it to Dutton Children's Books. My editor only had one major suggestion: Consider a new beginning.
If you're revising a novel, considering the first scene should be one of your last steps. It's hard to know how best to begin until you're sure how the story ends. And although everyone needs to revise in a manner that works for them, writers who perfect every sentence along the way can fall in love with senten ...
Tags: writing, novels, civil war, civil war reenactor
- From The Battlefield To The Bookstore
By: Kathleen Ernst | - For many reenactors, military and civilian, one of the pleasures of a weekend spent in the field is that elusive moment when everything works. I've heard the sensation called the bubble, or simply the magic. There's no way to predict exactly when it will happen. The feeling may last only seconds. But once you've experienced a moment that suddenly looks, smells, sounds, and feels so real that you completely forget your modern existence, you'll be hungry for more.
I know I am. A ...
Tags: writing, novels, civil war, civil war reenactor
- Reading The Romance Novels
By: Luke T. Axton | - One of my guilty pleasures is taking a bit of time for myself to read romance novels. I have always read them, even when I was a teenager. They were on my mom's bookshelf, though I'm not sure if she realized what I was reading. For the most part, I enjoy the romance but skip the really intimate parts, but many people read them and enjoy the entire package. Though some may say that romance books aren't really great fiction, I have to disagree. Some of the books that I have saved to read over and ...
Tags: romance novels, script writing, romance books
- Release Your Creativity And Regain The Freedom To Write
By: Kathryn Lively | - You want to write that novel. For years you've dream of taking time off to transcribe the idea you've nurtured for years. You can see the action taking place and you know every detail you want to convey, right down to your heroine's eye color and her favorite foods. Maybe now you do have the time, you're on sabbatical from work, or you're retired altogether. You have the time, the paper, the workspace, but when it comes down to getting the story on paper, nothing. No 'Once Upon a Time,' no 'It w ...
Tags: writing, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, novels, publishing
- Liaison With My Erotic Muse
By: P. F. Kozak | - Writing erotic romance is certainly a sexual liaison with my muse. Anticipation starts the juices flowing, and then imagination takes over. What is hotter than the expectation of tingles and whispers, caresses and sighs, and finally, skin against skin. The mind, after all, is the most potent erogenous zone. Much like spending a hot night with a lover, foreplay begins while walking up the stairs, or in this case, turning on the computer!
Before computers, writers stared at a bla ...
Tags: erotica, writing, fiction, novels, erotic romance, romance writer
- How To Trust Where A Character Leads You
By: Hugh Rosen | - Let's begin by uncovering the hidden premise of the title, which is that characters lead the author. But do they? I think we are faced with a paradox here. That's not necessarily bad or surprising, since some of life's most challenging questions imply paradoxical answers. Those with a black and white cognitive mindset may be disappointed at this suggestion, but I believe it's true.
In writing fiction, there can be no doubt that the words, sentences, paragraphs, and so forth, emana ...
Tags: novels, fiction, characters, authors
- Character Transformation In Fiction
By: Hugh Rosen | - Much of good to great fiction is characterized by character transformation. Usually this occurs in the protagonist, although it may involve more than one person. One might add that much of creative living is similarly played out as the individual is transformed from one type of person to another.
In either narrative, fiction or real life, the protagonist is effected by personal epiphanies, the influence of another, an openness to new experiences, the consequences of having commit ...
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